Meh. Another vicious bastard foisted on the American political scene by our Ivy League Diploma mills and a supine media (if Cruz is a product of what colleges and universities call, in over-used academic verbiage, “excellence”, we clearly need to turn that term into a negative one – kind of like what the GOP did with “liberal”). Read what acquaintances say about him (NB, acquaintances since he has few friends, and those only in agreement with his politics) and you get the pro forma “super-smart”, before a litany of colorful adjectives or appositives, the most common of which is “asshole” followed in close succession by “arrogant”, “abrasive”, “strident”, and “crank”. (Link to: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/me-ted)
And on top of the steamy pile of excreta that is his foreign policy vision, we can add more steamy piles on the domestic front: closing the IRS, his end runs around even the Republican clown car in order to shut down the government, and let’s not even get started on his hates on the poors by his Crusade to take away Jonny’s (or Mindy’s, or Robert’s, or insert your name here) health care and repeal the ACA.
Alas, his is but another feral reptile of means to regale us with Horatio Alger tales of can-do and boot-straps. His smug arrogance and self-assuredness reminds me of W. – maybe it’s just Texas or something in the water down there, but do we really want someone self-assured making war with our tax dollars against a people we cannot defeat, and shouldn’t even want to fight in the first place? Been there. Done that. Didn’t work.
Sigh – he’s seven years younger than me, so it appears, given the current blossoming of soon to be rotting fruit on the GOP tree that will call for more wars, my life will finish counting more Friedman units. If we can’t go after Iran there is always Venezuela or maybe Norway (we’d get both oil and fish farms!)
Meh. Another vicious bastard foisted on the American political scene by our Ivy League Diploma mills and a supine media (if Cruz is a product of what colleges and universities call, in over-used academic verbiage, “excellence”, we clearly need to turn that term into a negative one – kind of like what the GOP did with “liberal”). Read what acquaintances say about him (NB, acquaintances since he has few friends, and those only in agreement with his politics) and you get the pro forma “super-smart”, before a litany of colorful adjectives or appositives, the most common of which is “asshole” followed in close succession by “arrogant”, “abrasive”, “strident”, and “crank”. (Link to: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/me-ted)
And on top of the steamy pile of excreta that is his foreign policy vision, we can add more steamy piles on the domestic front: closing the IRS, his end runs around even the Republican clown car in order to shut down the government, and let’s not even get started on his hates on the poors by his Crusade to take away Jonny’s (or Mindy’s, or Robert’s, or insert your name here) health care and repeal the ACA.
Alas, his is but another feral reptile of means to regale us with Horatio Alger tales of can-do and boot-straps. His smug arrogance and self-assuredness reminds me of W. – maybe it’s just Texas or something in the water down there, but do we really want someone self-assured making war with our tax dollars against a people we cannot defeat, and shouldn’t even want to fight in the first place? Been there. Done that. Didn’t work.
Sigh – he’s seven years younger than me, so it appears, given the current blossoming of soon to be rotting fruit on the GOP tree that will call for more wars, my life will finish counting more Friedman units. If we can’t go after Iran there is always Venezuela or maybe Norway (we’d get both oil and fish farms!)